Thursday, January 08, 2009

New improved

Searches: The W.H. now has joined forces with Blogger to enable you to search the nearly 2,000 articles here so far, and show the actual articles together on the page - not a Google link list like it used to produce.

Labels: Nearly everything has now been labelled as well, so you can click on a label and likewise get the selected articles together on one page. If you click on the link for my name below, for example, you should see all the articles with my byline.

Comments: There are still some problems with the links to comments in the old format, which we're trying to fix. Moderation is now turned on for comments on posts older than ten days. For the avoidance of all tedium, comments are only enabled on new articles in a lighter vein.

Mergers: Most of Ossian's and Zoz's posts from their other blogs have now been imported and merged into the W.H. posts in date sequence by using the new Blogger import and export utilities. All of the imported posts are signed Zoz or Ossian and labelled Zozimus or Sloe Wine respectively.

Known problems: When viewing archives, search results or label results, the side archive links do not work. The earliest posts did not have headings and so the spacing looks different on them. There is strange additional spacing on some of the imported posts as well.

Great website. I never thought I'd find a website that appreciated the strange intensity of Willesden sunsets. It sounds ridiculous to say you don't see them anywhere else - but it's true isn't it?
- Zadie Smith (comments)

Despite your outrageous heightism, I would be very happy to take up your case with the Council...
- The Rt. Hon. Sarah Teather MP, Brent East
(Dear Feargal)

As you know yourself, the quest for form - the search for the voice and scale necessary to what one wishes to say
- is the primary effort of writing. This may lead one into novel writing at one point, and into the writing of sonnets later on
- rather as Beethoven confined himself almost exclusively to the string quartet after finishing the Op 125 symphony.
- Rana Dasgupta (Dear Feargal)

a note from Red Woodward

We have asked our columnists time and again only to post stories that are not not untrue, but frankly it would be easier to train monkeys. Please tell us if we have inadvertently hit on something not not true, and we will uncorrect it. (Ed.)

the wisdom of Red Woodward

"Never trust anybody honest."

"This whole everybody dying malarkey has got beyond a joke."

"One of these days you'll hear that I died. That's what I'll miss, hearing all the news."

"What a person says a lot about says a lot about a person."

"Minimalism is the biggest load of crap ever."

"There's no such thing as waiting. You are either doing something useful or you are doing something useless."

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